#i guess that's going to be my primary use case for [undescribed] going forward but it's annoying to me. i want a fix.

[hypokeimena]

one of the reasons i have not consistently done image descriptions historically is that it became an incredibly powerful and overwhelming moral ocd trigger. did i do it right? was i objective enough? what if i can't tell there's already alt text? (this was before there was an alt text button). did i make the punchline land? did i leave out an important detail? did i include too many extraneous details? and then i would get so hung up on these things, or about the fact that i described this image but not that image, or so on and so forth, until it became a stick that i was using to bludgeon myself which is like. not helpful for anyone especially including the people who need descriptions more than i do.*

anyway a big part of the fact that i am trying to do more of them now is largely that i am now psychologically resilient enough to use it as basically moral ocd desensitization for myself. the whole thing i'm doing is just tagging undescribed which has been motivating me to write more descriptions, but also gives me a bail-out clause for if i end up spiraling too hard to click post when i try to describe. and it has been going okay for me.

as an example. a real thought i just had to actively fight in my brain was: "what if it's evil to describe that wizard in the tree as like celestial seasonings illustration" and: 1. he is and i'm right about it. 2. that is an objectively stupid reason to have a meltdown. <- and then i can get over myself.